Faculty Profiles

Pence, C. J. (n.d.). “Ode to Iron.” Aquifer: The Florida Review Online.

Pence, C. J. (Trans.). (n.d.). Translation into Croation of “As a Child, You Worried You Would Be an Orphan” by Lara Radović. Tema.

Pence, C. J. (n.d.). “Asphalt Bobbling like Apples.” Academy of American Poets Magazine.

Pence, C. J. (n.d.). “At Woodlands Swim Club.” Appalachian Review.

Pence, C. J. (n.d.). “Funnel Cake on the Sidewalk and Other Thoughts on Love.” Appalachian Review.

Pence, C. J. (n.d.). “Pastoral of Her Last House.” Appalachian Review.

Pence, C. J. (n.d.). “Thoughts on Striving while Kayaking.” Appalachian Review.

Pence, C. J. (2025, June). “Character Questionnaire for a Stranger (You) Who Enters a Poem.” SWWIM.

Pence, C. J. (2025, April). “Ode to the Underwater.” We Did It First: Poems from Poets of Mobile Alabama.

Pence, C. J. (2025, April). “The Forest Has Decided.” We Did It First: Poems from Poets of Mobile Alabama.

Pence, C. J. (2025, April). Reprint of “If It Ever Leaves, Where Does It Go.” University of West Florida Art and Poetry Trail.

Pence, C. J. (2025, February). “Primordial.” Alaska Quarterly Review.

Pence, C. J. (2024). “Gift the Newly Married Couple.” Nelle.

Pence, C. J. (2024). “Brushing My Daughter’s Hair.” Nelle.

Pence, C. J. (2024, January). “Sunday Night Echolocation.” StorySouth.

Pence, C. J. (2023). “Alabama Backyard Haikus.” In The Southern Poetry Anthology, vol. X: Alabama. Texas Review Press.

Pence, C. J. (2023). “Sting Ray Valentine.” In The Southern Poetry Anthology, vol. X: Alabama. Texas Review Press.

Pence, C. J. (2023, September 25). “Anniversary Celebration: An Attempt in 2021.” SWWIM.

Pence, C. J. (2023). “Black Silhouettes against a Pink Sunset.”

Pence, C. J. (2023, March 31). “Some Madness There.” The Slowdown. Retrieved from https://www.slowdownshow.org/episode/2023/03/31/846-some-madness-there

Pence, C. J. (2022, April). “Sting Ray Valentine.” Southern Review.

Pence, C. J. (2022, April). “Date Night with Sunset and Spouse.” Epoch.

Pence, C. J. (2022, April). “Grief.” Epoch.

Pence, C. J. (2021, August). “As a Child, You Worried You Would Be an Orphan.” Poetry Magazine. Retrieved from https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/156075/as-a-child-you-worried-you-would-be-an-orphan

Pence, C. J. (2021, April). Reprint of “Joy Is Earned.” Verse Daily. Retrieved from http://www.versedaily.org/2021/joyisearned.shtml

Pence, C. J. (2021, April). “An Attempt at a Love Poem.” Good River Review. Retrieved from https://www.goodriverreview.com/issue-one

Pence, C. J. (2021, April). “Rosalind Franklin: The ‘Dark Lady’ of DNA.” Good River Review. Retrieved from https://www.goodriverreview.com/issue-one

Pence, C. J. (2020). Code. New York: NY, U.S.A.: Black Lawrence Press. Retrieved from https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/code/

Pence, C. J. (2020, October). “Emails Intended for the Vice President’s Daughter, the Other Charlotte Pence.” Your Impossible Voice. Retrieved from http://www.yourimpossiblevoice.com/found-poem-emails-intended-for-the-vice-presidents-daughter/

Pence, C. J. (2020, September). “DNA Offers Some Palindromes on the Patent of CRISPR.” On the Seawall. Retrieved from https://www.ronslate.com/genes-grief-poetic-form-and-love-a-conversation-with-charlotte-pence/

Pence, C. J. (2020, July). Reprint of “Orderly.” Chapter 16. Retrieved from https://chapter16.org/orderly/

Pence, C. J. (2020, July). “Another Second, Another 24 Million Pounds: A Cento.” Terrain: A Journal of the Built and Natural Environments. Retrieved from https://www.terrain.org/2020/poetry/charlotte-pence/

Pence, C. J. (2020, July). “Something Called Extinction.” Terrain: A Journal of the Built and Natural Environments. Retrieved from https://www.terrain.org/2020/poetry/charlotte-pence/

Pence, C. J. (2020, April). “On Marriage and American Coots.” Alaska Quarterly Review.

Pence, C. J. (2020, April). “Alligator Swimming Past.” Nelle.

Pence, C. J. (2020, April). “Becoming That Adult.” South Carolina Review.

Pence, C. J. (2020). “Bardo.” In Gracious: Poems from the 21st Century South (p. 19). TTU Press.

Pence, C. J. (2020). “Normalization of Deviance.” In Gracious: Poems from the 21st Century South (pp. 144–145). TTU Press.

Pence, C. J. (2020, January). Reprint of “What DNA Knows.” Poetry Foundation.

Pence, C. J. (2020, January). Reprint of “How to Measure Distance.” Poetry Foundation. Retrieved from https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/154891/how-to-measure-distance

Pence, C. J. (2020, January). Reprint of “Mourning Chicago.” Poetry Foundation. Retrieved from https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/154894/mourning-chicago

Pence, C. J. (2019). Reprints of “The Weight of the Sun,” “Love Between Parents,” “I’m Thinking Again of That Lone Boxer,” “Sometimes When a Child Smiles,” and “How to Measure Distance.” Journal of the Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement.

Pence, C. J. (2019). “Nightly Call to My Daughter While Traveling.” Journal of the Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement.

Pence, C. J. (2019). “Mourning Chicago.” Journal of the Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement.

Pence, C. J. (2019, July). “On Watching Three Women in G-String Bikinis Meander through a Muslim Town.” Connotation Press: An Online Artifact. Retrieved from https://www.connotationpress.com/hoppenthaler-s-congeries/3451-charlotte-pence-poetry

Pence, C. J. (2019, July). “My Daughter Asks If There is A Mermaid Cemetery.” Connotation Press: An Online Artifact. Retrieved from https://www.connotationpress.com/hoppenthaler-s-congeries/3451-charlotte-pence-poetry.

Pence, C. J. (2019, July). “A Pantoum Inspired by the Headline: ‘Y-Chromosomal Adam and Mitochondrial Eve Never Met.’” Connotation Press: An Online Artifact. Retrieved from https://www.connotationpress.com/hoppenthaler-s-congeries/3451-charlotte-pence-poetry

Pence, C. J. (2019, January). “If It Ever Leaves, Where Does It Go?” Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts.

Pence, C. J. (2019, January). “DNA ‘is to’: A Quiz.” Diagram. Retrieved from http://thediagram.com/19_2/pence.html

Pence, C. J. (2019, January). “What DNA Knows.” Hopkins Review.

Pence, C. J. (2019, January). “DNA Cautions About Gene Editing.” Hopkins Review.

Pence, C. J. (2018). “After Receiving Bad News at the Doctor’s Office.” Asheville Poetry Review.

Pence, C. J. (2018). “Dear A.” Asheville Poetry Review.

Pence, C. J. (2018, November). “Some Madness There.” Tusculum Review.

Pence, C. J. (2018, November 21). “The Weight of the Sun.” Guernica. Retrieved from https://www.guernicamag.com/the-weight-of-the-sun/

Pence, C. J. (2018, July). “Zwerp.” Quiddity.

Pence, C. J. (2018, July). “After the Prognosis.” Prairie Schooner.

Pence, C. J. (2018, April). “Heredity.” Birmingham Poetry Review.

Pence, C. J. (2018, March 1). “A Tanka After Election Day.” Panhandler. Retrieved from https://panhandlermagazine.com/2018/03/01/charlotte-pence/

Pence, C. J. (2018, March 1). “Silhouettes Against a Pink Sunset.” Panhandler. Retrieved from https://panhandlermagazine.com/2018/03/01/charlotte-pence/

Pence, C. J. (2018, March 1). “DNA Searches for Her Mother.” Panhandler. Retrieved from https://panhandlermagazine.com/2018/03/01/charlotte-pence/

Pence, C. J. (2018, January). “DNA Explains Replication.” Mississippi Review.

Pence, C. J. (2017). “A.’s DNA Reflects on Death.” Potomac Review.

Pence, C. J. (2017). “Moving Day.” Dash Literary Journal.

Pence, C. J. (2017). “Hades and Persephone in a Tract House.” Dash Literary Journal.

Pence, C. J. (2016). “A Mother Considers Cell Division.” Nimrod International.

Pence, C. J. (2016). “A Mother Considers Cell Division.” Borderlands & Crosswords: Writing the Motherland. Demeter Press.

Pence, C. J. (2016, July). “Lightning/Lightning.” Pleiades.

Pence, C. J. (2016, April). “Like a Ladder Without Rungs.” Dash Literary Journal.

Pence, C. J. (2016, April). “W--house Loves and Autopsies.” Dash Literary Journal.

Pence, C. J. (2015). “DNA’s Main Role is the Long-Term Storage of Information.” Shenandoah.

Pence, C. J. (2015). “Architecture of the Veil.” Black Lawrence Press National Poetry Month Selection.

Pence, C. J. (2015). “Found Poem: The Green Jardine.” Lobster Arsenic.

Pence, C. J. (2015). “AgResearch.” Poem of the Week. Retrieved from http://www.poemoftheweek.org/charlotte_pence_id638.html

Pence, C. J. (2015). “Argument (1).” Poem of the Week. Retrieved from http://www.poemoftheweek.org/charlotte_pence_id638.html

Pence, C. J. (2015). “Essay on Collective Paranoia.” Poem of the Week. Retrieved from http://www.poemoftheweek.org/charlotte_pence_id638.html

Pence, C. J. (2015). “In the End.” Epoch.

Pence, C. J. (2015). “Joy is Earned.” Southern Review.

Pence, C. J. (2015). “Cast-Offs.” EIU English Department National Poetry Month Selection.

Pence, C. J. (2015). “Cast-Offs.” Chapter 16 National Poetry Month Selection.

Pence, C. J. (2015). “AgResearch.” Black Lawrence Press National Poetry Month Selection. Retrieved from https://www.blacklawrence.com/national-poetry-month-spotlight-pence/

Pence, C. J. (2015). “Midwestern Haibun.” Midwestern Gothic Anthology.

Pence, C. J. (2015). “Ozymandias and Ye.” Moon City Review.

Pence, C. J. (2015). “Love Between Parents.” Asheville Poetry Review.

Pence, C. J. (2015). “Orderly.” Birmingham Poetry Review.

Pence, C. J. (2015). “Pig and a Bottle.” Luna.

Pence, C. J. (2015). “And One Other Thing, Girlie, Freud Said.” Quiddity.

Pence, C. J. (2015, October). “A New Mother Wants Some New Instructions.” Bridge Eight.

Pence, C. J. (2015, September). “How to Measure Distance.” Harvard Review.

Pence, C. J. (2015). Many Small Fires (p. 108). New York, NY, USA: Black Lawrence Press. Retrieved from https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/many-small-fires/

Pence, C. J. (2014, July). “Signs and Symptoms [May] Include Delusions.” Radar Poetry. Retrieved from https://www.radarpoetry.com/signs-and-symptoms-may-include-delusions/

Pence, C. J. (2014, July). “Among the Yellows, the Faces Slack.” Rattle.

Pence, C. J. (2014, July). “Architecture of the Veil.” North American Review.

Pence, C. J. (2014, July). “Attractions.” Prairie Schooner.

Pence, C. J. (2014, July). “Seven Family Snapshots.” Prairie Schooner.

Pence, C. J. (2014, January). “Apology to My Mother.” One Trick Pony. Retrieved from https://issuu.com/onetrickponyreview/docs/issue2

Pence, C. J. (2014, January). “To Become Anecdote.” One Trick Pony. Retrieved from https://issuu.com/onetrickponyreview/docs/issue2

Pence, C. J. (2014, January). “Gluttony.” North American Review.

Pence, C. J. (2014, January). “Thinking Again of That Lone Boxer.” Rattle.

Pence, C. J. (2013). “Weaves a Clear Night: XV.” Meet Me on the Plaza: Twenty-Five Years of the Southern Festival of Books. Humanities Tennessee.

Pence, C. J. (2013). “Yard Meditation.” In The Southern Poetry Anthology, Vol. VI: Tennessee (p. 181). Texas Review Press.

Pence, C. J. (2013). “Divining.” In The Southern Poetry Anthology, Vol. VI: Tennessee (pp. 182–183). Texas Review Press.

Pence, C. J. (2013). “Memory Corruption: Cinderella Always Knew She’d Lose a Shoe.” Denver Quarterly.

Pence, C. J. (2013, October). “Space Bears and Doxology.” Alaska Quarterly Review.

Pence, C. J. (2013, October). “Wanted: A Pretty Picture.” Alaska Quarterly Review.

Pence, C. J. (2012, October). “This We Call Many Things, One of Which Is Evolution.” Dash.

Pence, C. J. (2012). The Branches, the Axe, the Missing (p. 28). New York, NY, USA: Black Lawrence Press. Retrieved from https://www.amazon.com/Branches-Axe-Missing-Charlotte-Pence/dp/098287667X/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3MCNW4ADCVSFM&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.93MdFPi6djCaf1puLH5pxw.bqF5aMQwOkH-8pZREBu1F8sPUWRCZ4RBfFfxyXT3Oko&dib_tag=se&keywords=the+branches+the+axe+the+missing&qid=1756746051&sprefix=the+branches+the+axe+the+missing%2Caps%2C176&sr=8-1

Pence, C. J. (2012, April). “Along the Putumayo River in the Amazon.” Poems and Plays.

Pence, C. J. (2012, April). “The Diagnosis: Paranoid Schizophrenia.” Poems and Plays.

Pence, C. J. (2012, April). “My Father Speaks of Thieves.” Poems and Plays.

Pence, C. J. (2012, April). “Little Faiths.” Swink.

Pence, C. J. (2012, April). “Athena Proposes Traffic Circles.” Louisville Review.

Pence, C. J. (2012). The Poetics of American Song Lyrics (p. 312). Jackson, MS, USA: University Press of MIssissippi. Retrieved from https://www.amazon.com/Poetics-American-Song-Lyrics-Music/dp/1617031917/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1J80WUEGMW6DF&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.IxPW_3PQokCKhX5cpWj75SI4Dt6oXG8dkC1Fd5HrPWNxGEwG0bBQTxFPEKN3ytXE.OGvTEFKGvUPoM0-VPoKCag7Wdm8MAUOcd-8Xuh9Q8ho&dib_tag=se&keywords=poetics+of+american+song+lyrics&qid=1756746834&sprefix=poetics+of+american+song+lyrics%2Caps%2C103&sr=8-1

Pence, C. J. (2011). “The Myth of Balance.” A Tapestry of Voices: The Knoxville Writers’ Guild. Tennessee UP.

Pence, C. J. (2011). “At the Opry Mills Mall.” In The Southern Review Poetry Anthology: Appalachia (Vol. 3). Texas A&M UP.

Pence, C. J. (2011). “Two Weeks Without Rain.” In The Southern Review Poetry Anthology: Appalachia (Vol. 3). Texas A&M UP.

Pence, C. J. (2011). “What Comes Easily.” California Quarterly.

Pence, C. J. (2011, October). “Dogma of the Ten-Minute Egg.” New South.

Pence, C. J. (2011, October). “Regarding the Question of ICBM’s Diplomatic Ability, Yuri Ketchivosky.” New South.

Pence, C. J. (2011, October). “It Would Be Nice to Have a Whole Complete Male.” New South.

Pence, C. J. (2011). Weaves a Clear Night (p. 32). USA: Flying Trout Press.

Pence, C. J. (2011, September). “Life Is Long and Full of Action and Color.” Diagram.

Pence, C. J. (2011, August). “Divining.” Swink.

Pence, C. J. (2011, April). “Other Men Smelled Differently.” Tusculum Review.

Pence, C. J. (2011, April). “After Fifteen Years, She Said Thank You and I’m Sorry.” Fourteen Hills.

Pence, C. J. (2011, January). “Perfectly Whatever.” Rattle.

Pence, C. J. (2004). The Writer’s Path: Creative Exercises for Meaningful Essays (p. 162). Dubuque, IA, USA: Kendall Hunt. Retrieved from https://www.amazon.com/WRITERS-PATH-CREATIVE-EXERCISES-MEANINGFUL/dp/0757510868/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1FSHKZK9GVMS7&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.Lo0PV1QYS-GmA4FCRvnWgKrCU60p8FcXbnSB-upIOKNS_rZIRyy27Y9U3TX4sfukFuj7BNUwmX8mvK8edha-IrYj5Ose4mBv50xgDay2vKXAh1ZuRx8D0pjD_ttkNsiN-eTQ6oLzYdfg7-YcqRn9jXar0rs-jMX5u9jllnTGH89o6hqo22lLpXJImZ8Nhs6hE5GfSS5cxNw_iLpLVR14-BYcyshpQmTET4lyS9zs13o.z_uwpqQ450R9T4d4zswwThICWzEgkF4uE68bU6WnU5g&dib_tag=se&keywords=the+writer%27s+path+creative+exercises&qid=1756751985&sprefix=the+writer%27s+path+creative+exercises%2Caps%2C106&sr=8-1